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From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: using new versions of emacs without stoping a session
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:46:23 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8XopnZKj8BXtkXdyQGy9sWWZ10rg0rMmw-3ncw5ACfsRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d0lkfw47.fsf@gnu.org>

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:13 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> With one caveat: Windows won't let you overwrite a running executable,
> so the link step of compiling Emacs will fail on Windows until you
> shut down your running session.

However, Windows happily lets you *rename* a running executable (or
loaded shared library) out of the way, then put a new executable under
the old name.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-18 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-17 13:31 using new versions of emacs without stoping a session Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-17 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-17 14:35   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-04-17 16:13   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-18  2:47     ` YUE Daian
2019-04-18 12:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-18 13:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-04-18 12:46     ` Yuri Khan [this message]

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